Confidence: Will We Trust Him?
When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them something, they asked how to pray. Jesus responded not with a five-point lecture on prayer. Instead, He prayed. As we study the Bible on prayer, we find a powerful tool for communicating with God that goes far beyond "asking for a list of stuff." It's the key to a deeper, more intimate relationship with Christ for every believer.
The Basis of Our Confidence...
The God we pray to
The gift He gives us
The God We Pray To...
God is Father
We are expressing a reverence to Him
We are enjoying our relationship with Him
We are enjoying our relationship with Him
We are children
He contrasts earthly fathers
We are evil
He is good
We have limited wisdom
He has infinite wisdom
We have imperfect love
God has perfect love
The Gift He Gives Us...
The Spirit indwells us
We ask for gifts, He gives us the giver
We ask for the supply, He gives us the source
The Spirit empowers us
The Spirit pleads for us
The Spirit conforms our prayers
The Spirit transforms our lives
everything that God wants to do in every single one of our lives in this room happens as a result of the Spirit of God’s work in our lives.
I want for the Spirit of God to show Himself in this church in powerful ways, in unusual ways, in fresh ways so that we don’t do church business as usual anymore, so that we are doing things that apart from the Spirit of almighty God could not be explained, so that we are a people who are desperate for Him and calling out to Him, for Him to captivate us with His presence, to overwhelm us with His presence, not just in this place, it’s not about a building but us as a people that we as a people would be so captivated by the presence of our God in our lives that our lives would look radically different on a day by day by day basis and this church would look radically different.